Tag Archives: John Paul II

Bush was right when he exclaimed, “getting hammered is what happends when you take a principled stand.” I often think of this in contrast to the ubiquity of ‘thought leadership’ and other catch-phrases indicative of branding. The problem is this: … Continue reading →

Everyone remembers the destitute attitude consuming the United States immediately before the election of Reagan in November of 1979. For those too young to remember, it was the perfect embodiment of the ‘END’ of Western Civilization. Jimmy Carter became like … Continue reading →

The Roman Catholic Church has a very long distinguished history of playing a Machiavellian hand with secular leaders. Witness the long tenure of John Paul II in Poland regarding both his strategy to break the Warsaw Pact along with hardened … Continue reading →

How can one study the failure that is political Islam and Protestantism? The former dwells on an archaic vision that simply cannot address contemporary issues while the latter remains permanently entangled in the cultural morass of exalted personal autonomy. For … Continue reading →

My very first post on this blog was delivered on May 16, 2010. I titled it “A New Beginning”. It is posted on my home page after my bio. It explains much of the tradition that I carry as I … Continue reading →

It is simply not possible to speak of greatness without referring to Karol Wojtyla (pronounced Why-tee-wah), otherwise known as John Paul II. No other person than Rocco Buttiglione, Professor of politics, social ethics and economics at the International Academy for … Continue reading →

Most Catholics can remember when Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II) began criticizing the foundations of our capitalist ethic in admonishing the wests embrace of materialism. He challenged us to become more by having less. As a poet he understood the … Continue reading →

Both Orwell (real name Eric Blair) and Huxley left a substantial body of work that bore out the conviction that modern man was incapable of coping, resolving the demands of his time. Other writers, less artistic yet still formidable in … Continue reading →

Just what exactly is a culture war? It’s about competing forms of authority, and how they inform and shape human freedom. Today that war is waged within the once sacred, confined domain of the family, sexual ethics, law, technology, even … Continue reading →

“In fact it is one thing to be conscious that the value of sex is part of all the rich storehouse of values with which the female appears to the male; it is another to reduce all the personal riches … Continue reading →